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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






2. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






3. What foods have high quality protein?






4. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






5. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






6. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






7. What function is vitamin A?






8. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






9. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






10. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






11. Where can you get more vitamin D?






12. When does BMR decrease?






13. Name six sources of grains






14. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






15. What is RDA of protein?






16. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






17. Fats can lead to some medical problems






18. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






19. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






20. What is normal albumin levels?






21. What are healthy sources of fats?






22. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






23. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






24. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






25. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






26. What is the function of vitamin C?






27. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






28. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






29. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






30. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






31. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






32. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






33. How many calories/gram is protein?






34. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






35. What does DASH stand for?






36. What is the function of vitamin E?






37. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






38. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






39. When does BMR increase?






40. The higher the BMR a client has --






41. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






42. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






43. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






44. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






45. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






46. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






47. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






48. What type of people need extra protein?






49. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






50. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?